Simply mouthing the idea of the national interest takes the debate not one inch further forward.
It is a pretty poor look out if we are reduced to the mouthing of grandiose policies one year and ignominious retreats the next year.
Have they ever considered that if less notice were taken of the mouthings of some of these so-called celebrities, no one would hear of them.
I can remember in my previous role mouthing the words "we will it join when the time is right".
It is no good our merely mouthing our outrage.
The mere mouthing of pious hopes will not get us anywhere.
There is all the difference in the world, and no mouthing of words will convince me otherwise.
Rather than mouthing all we hear about the signal success with inflation which, while it has fallen, has done little to increase economic activity.
